What is hijacking?

[Smilex]

Simple question, I would love to hear a simple answer :D

[TirithRR]

When someone steals something.[dictionary.reference.com]

[Rain]

Originally posted by Smilex:

Simple question, I would love to hear a simple answer :D

In steam words, it is when someone steals your steam account.

[Smilex]

Originally posted by EvO:

Originally posted by Smilex:

Simple question, I would love to hear a simple answer :D

In steam words, it is when someone steals your steam account.

Thanks ^^

[Smilex]

Originally posted by TirithRR:

When someone steals something.[dictionary.reference.com]

That's a little to simple, but thanks anyway

[TirithRR]

Originally posted by Smilex:

Originally posted by TirithRR:

When someone steals something.[dictionary.reference.com]

That's a little to simple, but thanks anyway :spycon:

What's hard to understand? Hijack = Steal

"Someone hijacked my Steam account"
"Someone stole my Steam account"

Shouldn't take much of a leap to understand that if "Hijacking" means "Stealing" then hijacking your Steam account means stealing your Steam account.

[Rain]

If you are asking about hijacking steam accounts i can tell you that it's illegal and it can result in a ban, also it's against steam TOS.

[Smilex]

Originally posted by EvO:

If you are asking about hijacking steam accounts i can tell you that it's illegal and it can result in a ban, also it's against steam TOS.

I'm not planning to hijack lol :P. Was just wondering what it excaclty was.

[LEOdf]

When someone gets your login details, then enters your Steam account and changes them so you can't enter anymore, then goes on to do whatever they want with it. (Which usually is trading all your inventory items out of your account, normally followed by crazy comments to all your friends and finally followed by joy gaming the hell out of your account using hacks all over the show, eventually resulting in a VAC ban on your account as well...) TL;DR - Someone having a helluva time with your account...

[装X]

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[Smilex]

Originally posted by LEOdf:

When someone gets your login details, then enters your Steam account and changes them so you can't enter anymore, then goes on to do whatever they want with it. (Which usually is trading all your inventory items out of your account, normally followed by crazy comments to all your friends and finally followed by joy gaming the hell out of your account using hacks all over the show, eventually resulting in a VAC ban on your account as well...) TL;DR - Someone having a helluva time with your account...

So phishing is a sort of hijacking?

[TirithRR]

Phishing is how they get the information required to hijack your account.

[LEOdf]

Phishing is when they steal your login details by fooling you into entering them into a fake website. After they have your details, then they hijack your account.

[TirithRR]

Originally posted by LEOdf:

Phishing is when they steal your login details by fooling you into entering them into a fake website. After they have your details, then they hijack your account.

Fake websites are just one type of phishing. They could also impersonate admins and send you messages across various forms of communications, like email or facebook, asking you for personal information. Anything they can think of to throw out there as bait and hope suckers bite.

[LEOdf]

Any kind of fake form/questionaire/email/website that asks you for your login details is phishing.

[Smilex]

Originally posted by LEOdf:

Phishing is when they steal your login details by fooling you into entering them into a fake website. After they have your details, then they hijack your account.

Yeah, I get a LOT of phishers :P I just didn't know what the term 'hijacking' meant. Thanks to you all!